90-year-old San Bernardino woman beaten and robbed at home

SAN BERNARDINO -- Sheriff's deputies have arrested an 18-year-old San Bernardino man and are looking for another in connection with the beating and robbery of a 90-year-old woman at her home Thursday.

San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said the pair told the woman they were searching for a lost dog to convince her to let them in her backyard.

"Unfortunately, in this situation, they used that simply to victimize this poor woman," said sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Bachman. "I'm not sure that she could have done anything different."

Andrew Landeros, 18, who detectives suspect is hiding in either San Bernardino or Fontana, is one of two suspects. The other, 18-year-old Eduardo Adan May, lives on the same street as the victim. May surrendered to authorities the day after the robbery.

Deputies received a call at 10:46 a.m. about the crime in the 6700 block of Elm Avenue in San Bernardino.

The victim said two men knocked on her front door, and one asked if he could search her yard for his lost dog. The woman let the men enter her yard, police said.

The men placed a shirt over the woman's head and punched her to keep her quiet, sheriff's officials said. They bound her arms and brought her inside her home.

The men demanded money from the woman and fled with an unknown amount of cash and property, including the victim's Toyota Corolla.

Deputies found the vehicle abandoned nearby.

The woman walked to her neighbor's home for help. She was taken to a hospital as a precaution, but not hospitalized.

"For her age, she is doing well," Bachman said.

May approached a deputy on patrol on Friday and said detectives were looking for him. He came to the sheriff's Central Station and cooperated with investigators, sheriff's officials said.

But Landeros, who has a juvenile arrest warrant because he is suspected of a crime he committed before he turned 18, remains on the loose.

May, who was at Central Detention Center in San Bernardino in lieu of $250,000, is scheduled to appear in San Bernardino Superior Court today.

Anyone with information on Landeros may call detectives at 909-387-3545.